2014 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2014 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 October 2014
Official name	Tissot Australian Grand Prix
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.763 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:28.408
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Time	1:29.605 on lap 9
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Second	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Third	Bradley Smith	Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Time	1:32.470
Fastest lap
Rider	Maverick Viñales	Kalex
Time	1:33.066 on lap 25
Podium
First	Maverick Viñales	Kalex
Second	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Third	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Álex Márquez	Honda
Time	1:36.050
Fastest lap
Rider	Jack Miller	KTM
Time	1:36.302 on lap 3
Podium
First	Jack Miller	KTM
Second	Álex Márquez	Honda
Third	Álex Rins	Honda

The 2014 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island on 19 October 2014.

In his 250th premier class start, Valentino Rossi took his second victory of the season, after benefitting from an accident for Marc Márquez, while he was leading the race. It was Rossi's sixth win at the circuit, after five successive wins from 2001 to 2005. Second place went to Rossi's team-mate Jorge Lorenzo finished in second place, while Tech 3's Bradley Smith finished in third place, recording his first premier class podium, after Ducati's Cal Crutchlow crashed out late on. As a result, it was the first all-Yamaha podium since the 2008 French Grand Prix.^[1] For the first time since the 2009 Dutch TT, both Repsol Honda riders failed to finish the race; further to Márquez's accident, Dani Pedrosa collided with Andrea Iannone, with caused both riders to retire from the race.^[2] Karel Abraham, Stefan Bradl and Pol Espargaró also crashed out of the race, and only 14 of the 23 starters reached the finish.^[3][4]

In the support categories, Maverick Viñales took his third win of the season in Moto2, ahead of Thomas Lüthi and championship leader Esteve Rabat.^[5] In Moto3, Jack Miller took his fifth win of the season on home soil, in a photo finish; he finished just clear of Estrella Galicia 0,0 team-mates Álex Márquez (the championship leader) and Álex Rins.^[6] The top six riders were covered by just under a quarter of a second at the finish.^[7]

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	27	40:46.405	8	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	27	+10.836	3	20
3	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	27	+12.294	4	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	27	+14.893	10	13
5	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	27	+30.089	14	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	27	+30.154	17	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Honda	27	+30.158	13	9
8	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	27	+33.166	12	8
9	15	Alex de Angelis	Forward Yamaha	27	+33.577	23	7
10	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	27	+34.144	15	6
11	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	27	+39.468	18	5
12	9	Danilo Petrucci	ART	27	+56.684	19	4
13	70	Michael Laverty	PBM	27	+1:12.813	21	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia	27	+1:28.050	20	2
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Ducati	26	Accident	2
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	24	Accident	9
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Forward Yamaha	20	Retirement	6
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	19	Accident	11
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	17	Accident	1
Ret	23	Broc Parkes	PBM	13	Retirement	22
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	6	Retirement	5
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	5	Accident	7
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Honda	4	Accident	16
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Maverick Viñales	Kalex	25	39:10.419	4	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	25	+1.329	5	20
3	53	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	25	+1.504	1	16
4	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	25	+1.843	3	13
5	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	25	+3.292	7	11
6	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	25	+11.697	6	10
7	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	25	+11.777	10	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	25	+18.276	16	8
9	19	Xavier Siméon	Suter	25	+18.282	9	7
10	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	25	+18.478	8	6
11	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	25	+18.514	19	5
12	96	Louis Rossi	Kalex	25	+18.560	20	4
13	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	25	+18.834	12	3
14	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Suter	25	+19.224	18	2
15	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	25	+19.437	14	1
16	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	25	+33.238	11
17	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	25	+33.776	22
18	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	25	+36.416	23
19	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	25	+40.574	15
20	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	25	+40.630	26
21	8	Gino Rea	Suter	25	+51.225	27
22	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	25	+51.281	25
23	97	Román Ramos	Speed Up	25	+51.448	31
24	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	NTS	25	+51.496	29
25	20	Florian Marino	Kalex	25	+55.266	24
26	41	Aiden Wagner	Kalex	25	+1:02.283	30
27	42	Max Croker	Suter	24	+1 lap	32
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	18	Retirement	13
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Caterham Suter	17	Accident	2
Ret	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	15	Retirement	17
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Caterham Suter	12	Accident	21
Ret	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	4	Accident	28
DNS	49	Axel Pons	Kalex		Did not start
DNS	70	Robin Mulhauser	Suter		Did not start
DNS	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	8	Jack Miller	KTM	23	37:25.209	8	25
2	12	Álex Márquez	Honda	23	+0.029	1	20
3	42	Álex Rins	Honda	23	+0.032	2	16
4	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	23	+0.044	6	13
5	17	John McPhee	Honda	23	+0.134	5	11
6	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	23	+0.242	9	10
7	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	23	+2.753	15	9
8	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	23	+3.455	17	8
9	31	Niklas Ajo	Husqvarna	23	+18.118	19	7
10	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	23	+18.119	13	6
11	21	Francesco Bagnaia	KTM	23	+18.204	27	5
12	99	Jorge Navarro	Kalex KTM	23	+18.226	11	4
13	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	23	+18.278	18	3
14	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	23	+18.544	16	2
15	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	23	+20.468	12	1
16	13	Jasper Iwema	Mahindra	23	+23.434	7
17	16	Andrea Migno	Mahindra	23	+25.892	26
18	38	Hafiq Azmi	KTM	23	+25.894	22
19	43	Luca Grünwald	Kalex KTM	23	+35.571	21
20	52	Danny Kent	Husqvarna	23	+36.602	4
21	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	23	+40.291	29
22	95	Jules Danilo	Mahindra	23	+40.312	31
23	9	Scott Deroue	Kalex KTM	23	+40.514	28
24	3	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	23	+52.031	30
25	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Kalex KTM	23	+56.233	3
26	2	Remy Gardner	KTM	23	+56.274	24
27	4	Gabriel Ramos	Kalex KTM	23	+57.002	33
28	45	Olly Simpson	KTM	23	+57.340	32
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	21	Accident	10
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	KTM	16	Retirement	14
Ret	33	Enea Bastianini	KTM	12	Retirement	20
Ret	55	Andrea Locatelli	Mahindra	1	Accident	23
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Honda	1	Accident	25
DNS	57	Eric Granado	KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

1. "Valentino Rossi wins as Marc Marquez exits". BBC Sport (BBC). 19 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
2. Wiesinger, Günther (20 October 2014). "Schwarzer Sonntag für Honda" [Black Sunday for Honda]. Speedweek (in German) (Red Bulletin Schweiz AG). Retrieved 30 December 2014.
3. "Rossi takes 82nd premier class victory in incident packed race". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 19 October 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
4. "Tissot Australian Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
5. "Viñales takes the win in exciting Australian contest". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 19 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
6. "Miller shows determination and skill for classy win". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 20 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
7. "Tissot Australian Grand Prix – Moto3 – Race classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 12 October 2014.